Daniel - BAH Teacher #3076

“I have had many students make great advancements and enjoy the playing of drums”
 - Daniel

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I want to to transmit the excitement and sense of accomplishment that I have from playing the drums and music. It is important to me that the student has a succesful experience and advances in every single lesson. I base most of my teaching on using actual pieces of music. By learning to play the music through my guidance the student can have a great experience of achievement in mastering the elements needed. Also, a set piece of music is a defined goal and benchmark. I am careful to choose music that is appropriate to the level of the student and that they enjoy it. Also base a lot of my theory and technique instruction are based on actual pieces of music as this gives a direct example of application. With this direct music based method, I have had many students make great advancements and enjoy the playing of drums. It keeps them motivated to continue the pursuit of mastering the instrument.

Name: Daniel (Full name will be provided upon registration)

Age: 50's

Gender: male

I have a Diploma from the Musicians Institute in Los Angeles, CA. which I passed with honors. My first teacher was Ed Thigpen (Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald) , he taught me basic technique and drum set co-ordination. I studied for 5 years with Bob Armstrong, a master drum teacher in London, England. He taught me the Moeller technique as well as chart reading and jazz and latin drumming. I studied techinque with Joe Porcaro and big band drumming with Steve Houghton in Los Angeles.

I passed my Musicians Institute diploma with honors.

I have a higher education diploma in Occupational Therapy. This gives me insight into the different ways people learn and also enables to come up with strategies to overcomes learning difficulties.

Danish

English

French

German

Rates and Studio Policies
Registration Fee: $25.00 (One-time lifetime registration fee may be used by all family members)

Rates for instruction:
30 minute private lesson: $39.00
45 minute private lesson: $49.00
60 minute private lesson: $59.00

Travel charge: additional $15.00 per visit (for lessons in a client's home as opposed to my studio)

1. Cancellation Policy
Lessons not cancelled or rescheduled with at least 24 hours notice are billable to the client and payable to the teacher. This does not of course apply to travel fees unless the notice is effectively given at the door and the teacher has travelled to the location.

2. Cessation (quitting) Policy
A client must provide a 2 lesson notice period to stop lessons. So a weekly student needs to give 2 weeks of notice, a biweekly student works out to 3 weeks notice and a twice weekly student works out to a week of notice.

3. Illness Policy
Lessons cancelled due to illness or extraordinary circumstances with less than 24 hours notice remain billable to the client and payable to the teacher.

BAH teachers are encouraged to offer a make-up lesson at a future date in the interest of client relations and general goodwill. This only makes sense as teaching a student with the flu for example, will ruin the rest of your week's employment.

No more than 2 lessons may be made up due to illness within a 60 day period.

4. Rescheduling Policy
Any lesson can be cancelled or rescheduled with at least 24 hours notice.

Summer Vacation and Extended Absence Policy

Clients may schedule longer absences for trips etc. 24 hours notice is required.

It is normal and typical for students and about 20% of our teachers to schedule a break in the summer. We do not enforce a notice period (see cessation of lessons) at the end of a long summer break.

5. Evaluation Period
There are no free trial lessons with Beethoven at Home but we do offer a 2 lesson evaluation period where it is easy to try out a teacher. There are no free lessons during the evaluation period and clients may choose to discontinue the lessons at any time by providing the required 24 hours notice. After the student's 3rd lesson the required 2 lesson notice period will apply (see cessation of lessons above).

Lessons in your home

Daniel is available to teach in your home if you are located in the following areas

Online lessons

Daniel can provide online instruction. While other platforms are possible BAH strongly recommends the use of the Zoom video conferencing platform as it is optimized for music lessons and audio quality.

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